The ancestral home of the Valtrith Clan is enormous, with 54 rooms for you to explore as you try to hunt down whatever it is that is now using Nostromo as it's lair.... there are mouseover throughout the castle with more information, two chests with new belts to find, and a brand new helm for you to loot if you can defeat the current tenant!

There's only one thing in Castle Nostromo that can take any of your party out, and it's big. You have two choices, you can play as Symone and search the Castle for the perfect weapon to deal with the monster that's playing cat and mouse with you... or you can stick with the Hero and Valencia to learn more about Jaysun and sister Dyana!

As Symone hunts through the castle make sure to pay very close attention to your surroundings! It just might help you survive the night....

Just remember to watch your step and that some spots are more dangerous than others....

A huge thank you to the MechQuest team, Maegwyn, and Ashendal, and the AQW team and Alina for their help with additional art for this quest!

You and your friends have climbed up from the depths of the Valtrith Tomb but you haven't made your escape just yet...

In the depths of the Wastelands, on the peak of a lonely mountain, lies the ruins of Castle Nostromo, the ancestral home of the Valtrith Clan, now long abandoned... or is it? Something... pure, survives. Something unclouded by conscience, absent remorse, and without any delusions of morality.

The military branch of the Rose is that is. Compulsed by Code Orange, they have but one, narrow goal: to capture whoever broke into the Runed Fortress and made cause for the code to be decreeted. To capture... The Rebels.

There is little or no time. There are portals to the island of the fortress and the Rose can reach Espina Rosa in no time at all if it wishes to. Although you might have been tempted to free more prisoners found or exploit the seemingly upper hand of the moment as Navon put it, to destroy or damage the reputation of the Rose through the symbol that is the Runed Fortress, the opportunity is not what it seemed to be. The Stars are not aligned in your favour, Hero.

Or rather, they have been aligned against you since the beginning. What had hopefully been quick mission to infiltrate in and infiltrate out turned out to be a lengthy weeks long mission ; alone and vulnerable and similarly leaving your own allies to fend for themselves. What was aimed at being a professional infiltration turned into a tenuous and personal masquerade. When you hoped to find a floor full of the most powerful enemies of the Rose, you found only dark, twisted and hollow corridors where few traces of the mighty prisoners was left to be had and fewer answers still as to why. When the time came to escape, your guise was broken. An entire, painstakingly carried out plan that almost fell through.

Flee, Hero. Flee before the Thorns of the Rose catch you and manage to bleed you. The wise know to retreat to better fight another day.

With Espina Rosa having come to a close, I would like to quickly thank everyone. It has been a particular experience to have been able to work with the tireless Team that heads Dragonfable and to gleen on feedback from the players as they run through and explore the quests as they have with so many others before. Suffice to say, it is an experience one learns much from.

I know that a number of you may wonder about many questions, confoundations and mysteries raised by Espina Rosa even as the main storyline moves on towards Swordhaven. Know that some time in the future... you may get the chance to know more about the strange lore that surrounds Espina Rosa.

Finally... I inquired if you liked little puzzles regardless of whether or not you might earn from them much more than the fun or satisfaction of completing them... As a last little token of fun, I thus invite you, on the forums over the weekend if you wish, to take part in a little puzzle hunt. Nothing will be lost from not partaking but perhaps a bit of fun. You will notice, I am sure, that the strange words and utterances that wander the dark halls of the Third Floor in today’s quest... Namely, some letters are quite distinctly different from all the rest.

I challenge you to gather those letters and to sort them out into their true meaning. All of 21 letters must be had to complete the puzzle below.

With the alarms blaring it's time for you to help Elryn and the others finally break free from the third floor of the Runed Fortress! Will the thorns of the Espina Rosa give up her prey so easily though?

With the attack on the Queen's castle and Thursday taken, Safiria is out for blood. This time, though, Frydae is prepared for her assault... and while Safiria and the lycans work their way through the silver barrage outside only you, Hero, can rush through the tower to save Thursday from eternal darkness!

She mad.

If you can reach Thursday in time new Giant and Golden Bat Wing rewards can be yours. There's also a special DC shop for those you that covet the wings of the Queen!

Dracolich Fishing!I have been working on a new fishing spot for you guys! Who doesn't want to relax for the afternoon on the slick, unsteady bones of a crashed dracolich? The good news? I totally got the reflection of the bones just right. The bad news? It's totally broken and only saves the last fish you caught.

Verlyrus and Ashendal are on it though! If they can figure out what I did to just totally, totally, toooootally break all the things then Dracolich Fishing should be coming soooooon(-ish)(maybe).

I wonder what a couple years of decaying darkness does to a fish population....

Greetings! Tonight we have a few small things while Tomix is finishing up the main release for this week. (It should be tomorrow so cross your fingers!)

First up is a new shop in the Book of Lore! (Clear your cache if you don't see it!) Most of these items are made by Zee, an artist from Adventure Quest. There are a couple more things coming this weekend to the shop, but I just ran out of time today to get them done. All of the weapons in the shop have a special of some sort so everyone should find something they like!

All of the DA items in the shop are available at a discount, and in 2 weeks when the shop leaves they'll be placed around the game where they fit at the full prices. The DC items will be going rare. I have another Doom Blade that Zee made though that will be added to the Doom Helm shop (which will get renamed to Doom Items) after this shop leaves in two weeks. The Doom Item shop is accessed from the Mysterious Stranger or the Mysterious Orb depending on where you are in the storyline.

Geo is doing some last minute work on the other part of tonight's release so you can hopefully expect that sooooon! Fishy Fishy!